Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 26
The eighth letter from A is H, and there we have H for hare; therefore I awarded to the hare the first prize.
Who acts: we, I · What happens: be, have, award · To what, where: H, first prize, hare
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letter | amod |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 H | case |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 H | det |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 H | cop |
| 7 | H | H | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 letter | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 have | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 letter | parataxis |
| 13 | H | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 hare | case |
| 15 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 awarded | punct |
| 17 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 19 awarded | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 awarded | nsubj |
| 19 | awarded | award | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 hare | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hare | det |
| 22 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awarded | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prize | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 prize | amod |
| 25 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awarded | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 letter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a H | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | we | H | there | for hare | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent h=Patient | ||
| 3 | award | past | I | the first prize | the hare | therefore property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to hare=Goal |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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